Aug 7, 2006 In the good name of internet security, Microsoft added a feature in Internet Explorer
that disables automatic activation of objects. All objects in an HTML <object> tag is affected and that includes Java applets and Adobe Flash content. That means
you manually have to click a Flash movie in order to activate it before you can use
it.
If you have a Flash menu on your website, then the visitors have to click twice in
order to navigate – one to activate and one to click the actual link. You don’t want
that!
Lucky for us, JavaScript can solve the problem quite easily. Just add this script
to the <head> section of your HTML document.
<script
type=”text/javascript”>
function ActivateFlash()
{
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var
i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
}
}
</script>
And call the function from the <body> tag like this:
<body
onload=”ActivateFlash();”>
Of course, this is not a good solution, because you probably already have an
included JavaScript file and don’t want scripts mixed with your HTML. The obvious
choice is to add the script to your .js file, and then add an event handler, so you
don’t need to call it with an onload-command from the <body> tag.
Copy the function into your .js file and add the event handler line in top of that
file:
window.onload = ActivateFlash
function ActivateFlash()
{
var objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var
i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
}
}
By doing it this way, you don’t have to pollute you’re HTML with JavaScript in order
to eliminate the Flash activation in Internet Explorer.
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